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Software for Phylogenetic Trees: SSEC co-organizes Workshop in London
This September, SSEC’s Don Setiawan traveled to London to co-organize a workshop with collaborators at the University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London. The workshop offered an overview of SSEC’s work on Phylo2Vec, a software package designed to accelerate phylogenetic research. Phylogenetic trees are diagrams that illustrate species’ shared evolutionary history. Represented as bifurcating binary…
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SSEC collaborates on Workshop at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Last week, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez and Anshul Tambay from the Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) joined researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) for part of a week-long workshop focused on predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. The event was part of the Biodiversity Horizons project, which aims to develop scalable, open-source…
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Software for Community-Driven Enumeration: Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness
Partners: Zack Almquist and June Yang SSEC Engineers: Anant Mittal, Anshul Tambay Graduate Student Leads: Ihsan Kahveci, Emily Porter Undergraduate and Graduate Student Engineers: Arushi Agarwal, Hana Amos, Zack Crouse, Devanshi Desai, Elizabeth Deng, Kristen L. Gustafson, Finley Hutchison, Kaden Kapadia, Hannah Lam, Aryan Palave, KelliAnn Ramirez, Natalie Robbins, Hrudhai Umashankar, Jasmine Vuong, Ella Weinberg…
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ICESat-2 Hackweek 2025: Open Software for Earth Satellites
By Kate Rich In 2018, NASA launched the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) into space for scientific research. The satellite enables scientists to measure the elevation of tree canopies, oceans, sea ice, and ice sheets across the globe with its photon-counting laser altimeter. With these data, researchers can further explore how the…
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Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf. From programming languages to human languages, Niki has always had a knack for translating knowledge across different systems. Growing up in the…
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Staff Spotlight: Anthony Arendt
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Anthony Arendt, our Director of Community Engagement Programs and Senior Data Science Fellow. Anthony knows the importance of hard earned data all too well. As a Research Professor at…
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Universe of IGOs: Measuring Heterogeneity and Distributions of Member States
Project Lead: Jihyeon Bae, UW Political Science Data Science Lead: Curtis Atkisson Does having a diverse mix of member states make an inter-governmental organization (IGO) more or less cooperative? Scholars have long debated whether regime heterogeneity, especially variation in democracy levels, helps or hinders intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Yet despite rich theoretical discussions, empirical findings remain…
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Creating a code base for on- and offline analysis of ultrafast X-rayspectroscopy data recorded at the chemRIXS instrument
Project Lead: Amke Nimmrich, UW Chemistry Data Science Lead: Bryna Hazelton X-ray Free Electron Lasers help us more deeply understand the details of a chemical reaction. They are large scale facilities providing ultrashort pulses of X-ray light at high repetition rates. These light pulses can be used to observe reaction dynamics in real time (femto-…
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Climate Ready Vines Thermal Image Analysis for Cooling Potential
Project Lead: Amelia Keyser-Gibson, UW Environmental and Forest Sciences Data Science Leads: Noah Benson and Bernease Herman The Climate Ready Vines project is a multi-state collaborative research effort to evaluate and monitor potential energy saving, water use, ecological, physiological and horticultural characteristics of vine plants across different climates and latitudes in the Western U.S. Vine taxa…
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Building a Sustainable, Open Source Workflow for the Self-Sufficiency Standard
Project Leads: Lisa Manzer, Annie Kucklick, and Sarah Brolliar, UW Social Work SSEC Technical Project Manager: Anshul Tambay The Self-Sufficiency Standard measures how much income families need to meet their basic needs without public or private support. Used by researchers, policymakers, and advocates nationwide, the Standard draws on detailed local data such as housing, child…